US 2011/0298611 A1Published application

Apparatus and Method for an Alert Notification System

OwnerJohn Travis Shelton, Jordan J. Boyette +2inventors

InventorsJohn Travis Shelton, Jordan J. Boyette, Gregory H. Williams, Scott D. Elliott

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Abstract

In one aspect of the teachings herein, an alert notification system provides targeted and mass notifications via wireless transmissions within a defined network coverage area served by a radio network, which may be a closed private radio network and which, in one or more contemplated embodiments, comprises an appropriately configured cellular communications network. The alert notification system includes a central monitoring station that is configured to perform one or more alert functions that are in some sense optimized for processing and responding to alerts to, among other advantages, rapidly and effectively notify persons included within a defined population of emergencies and other alert conditions.

Claims11

Dependent claims

An alert notification system configured for targeted and mass notification of persons within a defined network coverage area, each said person having a personal transceiver configured for wirelessly communicating with said alert notification system, which comprises:

a central monitoring station comprising a computer processor and memory, said central monitoring station configured to automatically generate, without need for intervention by a human dispatcher, one or more outgoing alert messages responsive to receiving one or more incoming alert messages from corresponding ones of said personal transceivers;
said central monitoring station further configured to target said one or more outgoing alert messages to one or more recipients, based on being configured to perform at least one of:
(a) determine a class or group of recipients that is flagged for receiving automatic alerts;
(b) identify particular ones of among the personal transceivers that are geographically proximate to the personal transceivers that originated the one or more incoming alert messages;
and (c) identify particular ones among the personal transceivers that are geographically within a threat path determined from location and alert timing information associated with the personal transceivers that originated the one or more incoming alert messages;
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further comprising a radio network interface that couples the central monitoring station to one or more radio network nodes, for receiving said incoming alert messages and for transmitting said outgoing alert messages.

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a central monitoring station comprising a computer processor and memory, said central monitoring station configured to receive one or more incoming alert messages from one or more of the personal transceivers and to generate one or more outgoing alert messages for one or more other ones of the personal transceivers responsive thereto;
said central monitoring station further configured to control the alerting behavior of said one or more other ones of the personal transceivers as a function of their locations relative to the one or more personal transceivers that originated the one or more incoming alert messages;
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further comprising a radio network interface communicatively coupling the central monitoring station to a radio network providing radio service coverage within the defined network coverage area, for transmitting said outgoing alert messages and for receiving said incoming alert messages.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/156,581Filed 9 Jun 2011
Priority: 16 Mar 2009
Published: 8 Dec 2011
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

G08B 5/222
Using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission: personal calling arrangements or devices, i.e. paging systems
G08B 25/006
Alarm systems in which the location of the alarm condition is signalled to a central station, e.g. fire or police telegraphic systems: alarm…
G08B 25/016
Characterised by the transmission medium: personal emergency signalling and security systems
G08B 27/00
Alarm systems in which the alarm condition is signalled from a central

Family

Application12/404,585Continuation in part · filed 16 Mar 2009
Application61/353,098Us provisional application · filed 9 Jun 2010
Application13/156,581Continuation in part
US 2009/0251312 A1Published application
US 7,983,654 B2Related patent
US 2011/0298611 A1This patent

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